Archeological Elements: Affecting Museum Visit Behavior

[Shah Alam Kabir Pramanik]

Archeological Elements: A museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum). People visit museum to know about historical and archaeological information of a certain nation, country or region. Museum is a heritage place which is an important repository of valuable information, facts and instances of the ancient civilization (Rajesh, 2013; Falk, 1998; Williams, 2009).Reflection of local and national history (Rajesh, 2013; Falk, 1998), precious statues, sculptures, monuments, documentary collections, archaeological elements, existing antique things collections (Brida, at el., 2013; Morris, 2007), art & craft (Williams, 2009), heritages (Williams, 2009; Poria, Butler & Airey, 2004) are the antecedents of archeological factors that affect visitors attitudes.